viernes, 20 de febrero de 2015

Mama mexicana en el ...¡EVEREST!

Yuri’s partner Laura is also from Leon in Mexico. The 45-year-old nursery teacher has an 18-year-old-son and a 21-year-old daughter. Apart from mountaineering, Laura loves inline skating, biking and rowing. Her love for mountaineering started with her love for Yuri, whom she met in 2004. The enthusiastic sportswoman was thrown into the deep end and climbed Mexico’s highest mountain, Pico de Orizaba (5,600m) the same year. This expedition changed her life as all of a sudden the widow, who was going through a very difficult phase during this time, noticed that there is more to life than being a mother and a housewife. For the first time in her life she felt happy and motivated to do things she never thought were possible.

After this life-changing experience, Laura climbed the Matterhorn and Aconcagua. In 2008, she visited the Himalaya for the first time and together with Yuri climbed Manaslu. In 2009 and 2010 she scaled Mount Everest from the South and North respectively and in 2011 she climbed Shisha Pangma in Tibet.

Laura is very keen to reach the smallest summit of any 8,000m peak - and that is part of the reason why she is here. Makalu will certainly not be her last high mountain as Laura is planning to reach the summits of all 14 8,000m peaks together with Yuri. She loves the mountains and she loves Yuri, and the two are great partners in the mountains as well as in life.